Meg Ryan Says She Wants More Kids

Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, January 27, 2002

Already the mother of a 9-year-old son, Meg Ryan says she'd definitely like to have more children.

"Oh, yeah. I'd love to have a daughter," the actress told Reader's Digest for its February issue.

"I'd like to have another boy, too, but I'm glad I had a boy first. I think I'm a much more intact woman now than I was nine years ago when I gave birth to Jack. I think I'd be a better mom to a girl now than I would have been then."

Jack is Ryan's son with ex-husband Dennis Quaid, from whom she's divorced after nearly a decade of marriage. Ryan, 40, said "there's some acrimony" with Quaid now that they're raising the boy apart, "but it's not overwhelming."

"And I guess we're just both so in love with our kid, and his innocence is important to both of us, that we really wanna preserve that for him," she said. "And there's a lotta love still all around, everywhere, but you know, it wasn't working."